Worldly Concern

Famous quotes containing the words worldly and/or concern:

    “Life, being weary of these worldly bars,
    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.”
    —Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)